Well snow day, with no snow. At least not yet, or that is what they are telling me. As I sit here at 4:30 AM waiting to call staff, I think I will take a detour and head for California...
We pass some more small stations, we go through a tunnel between Rapid City and Deadwood. We change cars again before we get on our next train we go to a hotel and get dinner, before we go in the depot again we go out to a truck and eat snow off from it. That is quite a sight to the Californian people. Our train pulls up we get in. We glide along by hills covered with evergreen trees and snow on them. We pass a large hill with a rock right on top, it looks like petrified wood.
The next large town we come through is Hill City. Our train stopped long enough to get water, another one of our friends Mrs. Jack Lile meets us we didn't have time to go her house but we saw it. The Porter hollars All aboard we bid her good by and go back in the car, it was 5 o'clock when we left there
Along in the evening we come to Edgemont Mr Jim Ellis got on the train. We sit up and talk a while except Uncle Cleve and Mr. Ellis went in our sleeper and went to bed.Uncle and Mr. Ellis went up in the engine and rode untill about 12 o'clock he got off at Alliance. In the morning we ran into Brush. We are now in Colorado.
4 comments:
This is EXACTLY what I was hoping for today.
:-)
Two things:
1. Hill City referred to as a large town
2. Eating snow off the truck, talk about a mental image
Yes!!!
I wonder why they ate the snow off the truck? To impress the Californians?
good stuff!!!
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